Assessment as text production: Drawing on systemic functional linguistics to frame the design and analysis of assessment tasks

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 553-563

  Hughes, Clair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment design; Assessment frameworks; Systemic functional linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950772912     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602930802187316     Document Type: Article

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